Fall 2021 Classes
We have a great selection of learning opportunities hosted by the Saddlebrooke Fine Arts Guild. Take a look below and register for something.
**PLEASE NOTE OUR REFUND POLICY FOR CLASSES
Full Refunds are given for the following reasons:
Special circumstances: Emergency surgery Death of immediate family Full refund if notify registrar one week prior to beginning of class. No show – no refund.
No adjustments of class fees if unable to attend one or more of a class series.
Acrylic Painting
NOVEMBER 30 TO DECEMBER 21, 2021, 9 AM TO NOON
ACRYLIC PAINTING (see above for a sample of Laurie’s technique and painting skills)
Instructor: Laurie Brussel This instructor requires all students to wear masks, regardless of vaccine status.
This class, every Tuesday morning for 4 weeks, is for both beginners and more experienced painters. For beginners, it will be an introduction to working in Acrylic paints. In the first class, Laurie will cover materials such as brushes, canvases, and suggested paint colors along with a lesson in color theory, mixing paints, and achieving different techniques.
For beginners, to get started, bring in a few fruits such as limes, oranges, bananas, grapes, or vegetables such as squash, peppers, etc. Canvas boards or stretched canvas around 16 X 20 is also suggested as well as a container for water, rag, plastic tablecloth, and palette or palette paper pad, pencil and drawing paper.
For intermediate and advanced painters: please bring in anything you will need to begin your painting- supplies, subject matter.
Suggested paint colors for the first class areTitanium White, Cadmium Red, Dioxazine Purple,Ultramarine Blue, Sap green, Yellow Ochre, Cadmium Yellow Medium, Raw Umber, and Payne’s Grey.
Cost: $140.00 for members, $150 for non-members. For beginners and up.
Fractured Florals
DECEMBER 1, 2021, 9 AM TO 3 PM
FRACTURED FLORALS
Instructor: Robbie Summers
After transferring a floral image, to your watercolor paper, you will overlay the floral with geometric shapes. Using sharpies and watercolor, you will change your floral colors as you touch each line for a “fractured” look.
Cost: $75 for members, $85 for non-members. All supplies included in cost.
Scratchboard 2
SCRATCHBOARD 2
DECEMBER 8, 2021, 9 AM TO NOON
Instructor: Robbie Summers
Using your favorite black and white photo (or mine) and scratchboard paper, you will scratch out your image to produce a masterpiece in black and white. Color can also be added for an even more dramatic effect.
Cost: $35 for members, $45 for non-members. All supplies included.
Woven Watercolors
DECEMBER 9, 2021, 1 TO 4 PM
WATERCOLOR WEAVINGS
Instructor: Karen Brungardt
Take a ‘failed’ watercolor painting–one too good to throw away but not good enough to frame–and learn how to breathe new life into it in this clever technique of weaving watercolor paintings together. You’ll use old paintings and also paint a new one for using the technique.
Cost: $35 for members, $45 for non-members. For Beginners and up.
2022 Winter/Spring Classes
We have a great selection of learning opportunities hosted by the Saddlebrooke Fine Arts Guild. Take a look below and register for something.
Beginning Drawing
Tuesday January 11-February 8, 2022 9-12 AM
Instructor: Laurie Brussel
This is a 5 week class for individuals who have always been afraid to take a beginner drawing class. It is also for more experienced artists who would like to build their confidence and deepen their artistic perceptions. Laurie will teach you how to shift from your usual analytical processing (left brain mode) to a more creative way of thinking and seeing (right brain mode). Anyone can draw. It’s just a matter of training your eyes to see. Bring to first class a 14 X 17 all purpose drawing pad, HB or #2 pencil and a kneaded or plastic eraser.
Cost: $175 for members, $185 for non-members.
Pastel Portraits from Photos:
Creating a Keepsake, not a Glamor Shot
Tuesday January 11, 2022 1:00 – 5:00
Instructor: Delys Nast
Pastel gives a beautiful soft texture to any portrait with a warmth not captured in photographs, through the use of blending and creative techniques.
Learn a few ways to simplify a photo for portraits that speak to the subjects personality and transforms the image into a painting. Sometimes all it takes is that extra highlight or a splash of unexpected color to take your painting to that next level. In this 4-5 hour workshop you will do just that, while keeping it simple, relaxed and fun. Supplies are included but if you have pastels you like using, bring them. No need to buy your own supplies just for this class.
• Advice on basic materials: guidance on building, storing, and organizing a collection of pastels; choosing the right paper; and the importance of experimentation and simplicity
• Study of the working process: lessons on proportion, gesture, composition, color, application, identifying and correcting problems, and recognizing when a work is finished
• Finding the painting within a photo: how to extrapolate and simplified an image, find subtle details, and bring out the personality of whatever you choose to paint
• Step-by-step demonstrations: Delys shares insights into her own works as they progress
Class participants will be asked to send Delys the photo they wish to paint in advance of the class.
Cost: $35 for Members, $45 for Non-Members.
Collage
Wednesday January 12, 2022 9AM-3PM
Instructor: Deb Kress
Collage is a French word meaning “to glue”.
We will be making our own papers and learning about the methods and products used to adhere them to paper. Make it your own with a daily paper or magazine, parts of a photograph, newspaper clippings, and words.
Cost: $75 for members, $85 for non-members. Additional supply fee of $10.
Beginning Watercolor
January 13-February 10, 2022 1pm-4pm
Instructor: Karen Brungardt
Many people view watercolor as a difficult medium and too hard to learn. Take my Beginner Watercolor class and let me demystify those myths. I’ll teach you from the ground up: how to use various brushes, pigments, paper and subjects, all in the wonderful, fluid, versatile medium of watercolor. Your brush meets water meets paint to make the most amazing colors and looks on paper! This is a watercolor journey you’ll be taking, whether this is the first time you’ll ever try this out or if you are returning after years away. I look forward to being your tour guide and teacher!
Cost: $175 for members, $185 non-members.
Matting for the Fine Arts Show
Wednesday January 19, 2022 1pm-4pm
Instructor: Wayne Ufford
Learn how to truly show off your art with the perfect mat preparation.
Cost: $35 for Members. $45 for Non-Members.
Prayer Flags
Wednesday January 26, 2022 9am-3pm
Instructor: Deb Kress
Make your own collection. Students will prepare flags using collage and assemblage techniques.
The flags will blow in the wind to spread goodwill, compassion, strength, wisdom, and peace into all the pervading space.
Cost: $75 for Members, $85 for Non-Members. Additional supply fee of $10.
Intro to Alcohol Inks
Saturday January 29, 2022 9-12
Instructor: Karen Brungardt
Discover the thrill of using vibrant colors to learn the basics and complete a project in class. This medium is fun and colorful for eye-catching paintings, making cards, doing abstracts and other fun projects.
Cost: $45 for Members, $55 for Non-Members.
Drawing 2
Tuesday February 5-March 15, 2022 9-12
Instructor: Laurie Brussel
This 5 week class is not only for those students who have taken Beginner Drawing Part 1 with Laurie Brussel but it is also for those individuals who have drawn before and would like to strengthen their seeing skills. Remember, if you are a painter, you can’t get enough practice in drawing.
Laurie will again focus you into your right brain mode (the creative side of your brain) to enable you to easily delve into class covered areas such as composition, shading, texture, shape and line. Learn more about drapery and explore the medium of pen and ink.
Bring to class a 14 X 17 all purpose pad (no newsprint) pencils (#2 is fine) kneaded eraser or plastic eraser and fine point black ink pens.
Cost: $175 for Members, $185 for Non-Members.
Beginning Oils
Thursday February 27-March 3, 2022 9-12
Instructor: Karen Gille
Let’s have some fun and learn to paint. Classes meet Thursday mornings, 9-noon, January 27-March 3 (six weeks). Classes will include learning about: brushes, oil paints, the color wheel, color mixing, values, composition and much more. You will learn to use water mixable oil paints and set up a toxic free work space. We will practice painting several objects so you can apply what you are learning. This will give you a good foundation to help you discover the beauty of oil painting and what you can create in the future. Class is limited to eight students .
Cost: $210 for Members, $220 for Non-Members.
Watercolor Skies
Saturday February 26, 2022 9-12
Instructor: Karen Brungardt
Watercolor skies are so much fun to paint and really add life to a landscape! You’ll learn some different ways to paint skies, from a simple sky to a complicated sky with clouds and colors. It’s fun, it’s simpler to do than you think it is and you’ll have some reference skies for further use at the end of the class!
Cost: $35 for Members, $45 for Non-Members. If using Instructor supplies, add $10.
Cactus Flower Watercolor
March 23, 2022 9am-3pm
Instructor: Renee Pearson
Cost: $75 for Members, $85 for Non-Members.
Misty Scenes
Thursday March 10, 2022 1pm-4pm
Instructor: Karen Brungardt
Do you love seeing misty hills and trees? Ever wonder how to paint a scene like that in watercolor? Here’s your chance to learn! In this class, you’ll learn how to use water and pigments to create those early morning scenes with lots of mist and trees and, perhaps, an animal or some birds coming out of the mist. You’ll have a completed painting at the end of the class to take home and show off!
Cost: $35 for Members, $45 for Non-Members. If using Instructor supplies add $10
Watercolor Batik
Thursday March 17, 2022 9am-4pm
Instructor: Karen Brungardt
Learn how to combine watercolor and wax into a fantastic painting…and know that you can’t go wrong with doing this! Using rice paper, you’ll be provided a drawing of the subject to use and step-by-step instructions on how to produce your own batik watercolor and have a great painting at the end of class while having a lot of fun doing this special technique.
Cost: $75 for Members, $85 for Non-Members.
Beginning Watercolor 2
Thursday March 31-April 28, 2022 1pm-4pm
Instructor: Karen Brungardt
In Part Two of Beginner Watercolor, we’ll now focus on composition, techniques, textures, perspective, and on completing paintings of various subjects. This can be a stand-alone class OR you can continue your watercolor journey from Beginner Watercolor : Part 1, where we will now learn how to use our supplies, our imaginations, reference photos, and new techniques. Keep your seatbelt fastened as we continue to explore and find new ways to use your newly acquired knowledge and experience of being a watercolor painter!
Cost: $175 for Members, $185 for Non-Members.
Class Roster
Norwegian Rosemaling
Wednesday April 13, 2022 9am-3pm
Instructor: Connie Kotke
Rosemaling is a decorative art that originated in Norway during the 1800s. Artists traveled their home valleys to bring prestige and color to churches, homes and furnishings. Today, American painters (with and without Scandinavian heritage) use rosemaling techniques on wood, glass, leather, and even motorcycles!
This class is for beginners. Using oil paints (but no toxic solvents), you’ll learn basic design elements, color palettes and brush strokes. Then you’ll follow a pattern to decorate a flat, wooden Easter egg just in time for the holiday.
Cost: $75 for Members, $85 for Non-Members Additional supply fee of $25 includes everything; you will take home three brushes used during class.
Drawing in Colored Pencil
Tuesday April 19- May 10 9-12
Instructor: Laurie Brussel
Colored pencil is a very impressive, sensitive medium. When used properly, the colors become luminescent. This 4 week class teaches you how to use the colored pencil to get the most valued results. Lessons in color theory and composition are also included to help you understand the total color drawing. Supplies for the first day includes colored pencils (I like Prism Color brand in various colors including a basic yellow, red and blue, You can also buy them separately as needed later), all purpose 14 X 17 drawing pad, colored pencil eraser (ask for the black colored pencil eraser. It works better than the kneaded or plastic) and optional masking tape.
Cost: $140 for Members, $150 for Non-Members
Outreach Events
I Can’t Draw a Stick Figure
“I CAN’T DRAW A STICK FIGURE” Class
Our next popular class is October 19, 2021, from 9 am to 4 pm! Try out many different mediums, make some take-home projects, have fun! You’ll be introduced to watercolors, alcohol inks, drawing, pastels, collage, and other fun mediums.
The cost is only $25 for the whole day; all supplies are included and instructors for the various classes. Lunch is one hour, on your own.
Email Karen Brungardt at president@sbfag.club with questions. Otherwise, click here for a registration form. Stick Figure Registration Form
This event is full but we will maintain a waiting list. In the event of a cancellation, you will be moved into that slot if you’re on the waiting list. Otherwise, we will be holding this event again and you’ll have first chance at the class from our waiting list. Otherwise, if you prefer not to be on a waiting list, you will be refunded your registration fee if your application is received after the class was filled.
Art and Wine Event
Our next Art & Wine Event is November 23, 2021, from 5:30 pm to 9 pm, which will be a Holiday Theme painting!
The November Art and Wine event is FULL. If you like, you can join the Waitlist by emailing president@sbfag.club
The next event will be February 22, 2022 with a Spring theme.
Cost is $40 per person and all supplies, instructors, food, wine, and water are included in the event fee! Click here for registration form: Art and Wine event